October 3rd.—To facilitate peace King George renounces his title of King of France.
November 12th.—Rupture of Armistice between France and Austria.
December 3rd.—Moreau wins the battle of Hohenlinden (Austrian loss, 16,000 men, 80 guns; French 3000).
December 20th.—Moreau occupies Lintz (100 miles from Vienna).
December 24th.—Royalist conspirators fail to kill Bonaparte with an infernal machine.
December 25th.—Armistice at Steyer between Moreau and Archduke Charles (sent for by the Austrians a fortnight before as their last hope).
SERIES D
"The peace of Amiens had always been regarded from the side of England as an armed truce: on the side of Napoleon it had a very different character.... A careful reader must admit that we were guilty of a breach of faith in not surrendering Malta. The promise of its surrender was the principal article of the treaty."
England and Napoleon in 1803.